Politics

The fine Monday marks the second sanction for Trump for inflammatory comments about witnesses since the start of the trial last month.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Sunday did not directly answer multiple questions about whether he’d accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, regardless of who wins.

Kristi Noem is in the running to become Donald Trump’s VP nominee in the 2024 election.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife have been indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges in connection with a federal probe into their ties with the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.

President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 people on Friday, including civil rights icons such as the late Medgar Evers, political leaders such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the actor Michelle Yeoh.

Former White House official and Donald Trump adviser Hope Hicks took the stand Friday at the former president’s hush money trial

A Georgia business owner struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him into the mob of Donald Trump supporters on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace.

Jurors appeared riveted as prosecutors on Thursday played a September 2016 recording that attorney Michael Cohen secretly made of himself briefing his celebrity client on a plan to buy Karen McDougal’s story of an extramarital relationship.

Jovokhir Attoev was released inside the U.S. in 2022. A year later, Uzbekistan put out a global notice that he was wanted for alleged ISIS ties. U.S. officials didn’t arrest him until 2024.

A new report released Tuesday details how oil and gas companies knew the consequences of their emissions since at least the 1960s. Congressional Democrats spent three years investigating the fossil fuel industry’s deception and highlighted their findings during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. National climate reporter Chase Cain recaps the milestone...

The Arizona Senate voted Wednesday to pass a repeal of the near-total ban on abortion from 1864 that was upheld by the battleground state’s Supreme Court last month.

The Brennan Center survey also found 62% of local election officials are concerned about political leaders’ attempting to interfere with how they do their jobs.